The best part of the Christmas & holiday season is, of course, the family gift giving and general joyousness. But the second best part is the music. The music! I am obsessed with Christmas music.
It’s after Thanksgiving, which means a bunch of radio stations transition to 100% Christmas music (and 40% more commercials) until the day after Christmas. My happiest moment this season thus far, however, involves the realization that Pandora has Christmas music. (Well, ‘holiday’ music.) This means I can enjoy ad-free (audio ad-free) music! Bryan will be SOOOO sick of Christmas music after a week, I can promise you that. He’ll start singing along first, though — that’s his sign of impending insanity. Once he starts to sing, the insanity isn’t too far away. I don’t know how I don’t go insane, either… maybe it’s the variety of arrangements? I know almost all the words by heart (especially of my favorite songs: O Holy Night, Carol of the Bells, The First Noel, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Hark, The Herald Angels Sing!, Silent Night, Joy to the World, The Little Drummer Boy…) — actually, for some of them (Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, and guilty pleasure Hanson’s Snowed In album) I know the musical arrangements by heart, too. I know when to pause for the extra embellishments they add… Yeah, all that. I can play a bunch of it on the piano, too.
The only point of going to church on Christmas eve, by the way, to me, is to be a part of the singing. (Otherwise that’s precious hanging out with the family in the cozy house that smells of cinnamon time going to waste!) (Also: if you don’t know my opinion of church in general, you probably won’t get my opinion of church on Christmas eve, either.) Anyway… Go Tell It On the Mountain… Wow. I know all those songs by heart. I wonder if my parents are going this year and we’re expected to go, too. Hm. That’s a question to ask.
I put Christmas lights up in the apartment (icicles outside, colorful lights inside). It’s so merry and happy. All we need is a Christmas tree. I will find a way to have one. Somehow. Even if it’s tiny. I want to manage a real one if I can (in a pot! So it lives on past the new year!) but… we’ll see. It’s not easy to fit one in the studio.
Anyway. Off to clean the apartment, energized by pumpkin spice creamer in my coffee and Christmas music!
